Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 5

Pigs are not used for herding, but they are clever and can be trained with rewards to fetch, sit and come when called.

Who acts: sheep · What happens: not use, be, train, fetch, sit, come · To what, where: Pigs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 used	advmod
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 herding	case
6	herding	herding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 clever	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 clever	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 clever	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 clever	cop
11	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 used	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 trained	cc
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 trained	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 trained	aux:pass
15	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 clever	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 rewards	case
17	rewards	reward	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 trained	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fetch	mark
19	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 trained	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct
21	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fetch	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sit	conj
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 called	advmod
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 come	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not use	present · passive		Pigs	for herding	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for herding=Eventuality
2	is	present	sheep		clever property	tree rules
3	train	can · passive	sheep not said here		with rewards	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: clause=Attribute
4	fetch	to-infinitive	sheep not said here			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sit	infinitive	sheep not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	infinitive	sheep not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	call	participle	sheep not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.lesson:5.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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